CSS Text Hover Effects

If you work on websites for any length of time you are probably going to run into the problem of hovering a piece of text over an image, usually taking the form of a title or caption that appears only when place your mouse over the image.

There are a number of ways to do this, many of them laid out online in tight little tutorials or answers to forum questions.

I was very frustrated by these as I was having a great deal of difficulty getting them to work. That is, until I found one that worked beautifully and was explained clearly enough to get through this dense skull.